Levelling Down | Austerity in Wales

This is nominally free but ‘pay what you can’. Paying to support something you believe in also supports those who can’t afford to. The book may open at the Foreword, but note that there are pages including a Table of Contents prior to that.

This community of writers was born out of a project published by Bylines Cymru, part of the Bylines Network of citizen journalism platforms. We wrote about austerity through February and into March 2025. This book collects that work, on the eve of potentially more devastating austerity for those most in need of support.

Austerity has not just been a failure by the test of progress, it has failed a huge proportion of people in Wales and the UK generally – most of all, those killed or bereaved by it. We are adding our voices, loud and clear, to those who are saying that enough is enough now. These are rightly voices of outrage, frustration, pain, and fury. But they’re also voices of hope.